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ANNA C. ZAUN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BELT-PIN.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,919, dated January 26, 1897. Appumion 516mm 5,1896. sentirete/1,367. (Nomodem To @ZZ whom, ft' 71am/ conce/'11 Be it known that I, ANNA C. ZAUN, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Belt-Pins, of which the following is a specification. i

The object of the invention is to provide means for attaching the skirt to the waist at the back and also to engage the belt and insure that the latter shall conceal the line of junction.

It consists of a bar having a hinged pin adapted to be thrust through the adjacent edges of the waist and skirt and a keeper for the pointed end of the pin and wires extending upward from the bar, curving outward and thence downward to forni hooks in which the upper edge of the belt is engaged to hold it in place relatively to the waist-line.

The accompanying drawings forma part of this specification and represent the inanner in which I have carried out the invention.

Figure l is a view showing the pin in use. Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing the relative positions of the garments, belt, and beltpin. The remaining figures are on a larger scale and show the belt-pin alone. Fig. 3 is a face view; Fig. 4, an end view, and Fig. 5 a corresponding edge view from above.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the gures.

A is the waist, B the skirt, and C the belt, all as usual.

D is a narrow bar, of thin metal, havin g on its back face a sharpened pin D', knuckled at the opposite end to the bar at CZ and received at the point in a hooked catch or keeper D2.

E E are wires, which may be of the same or dierent metal, soldered to the back face of the bar D near its upper edge at the points CZ CZ. The wires E extend upward in straight bar and are then bent outward and downward on semicircular curves E E', flowing smoothly into the straight portions E2 E2, extending downward parallel with and nearto the front face of the bar,.terminating below the lower edge of the latten To apply the device, the lower edge of the waist A and upper `edge of the skirt B are lapped one upon the other at the back. The pin D' is then thrust through both and returned and secured in the keeper D2, care being taken in pinningthe garments together to apply the device with the curved portions E E uppermost and in the middle of the back. The upper edge of thebelt is then inserted between the straight portions E2 E2 of the hooks and the adjacent face of the bar D and slipped upward until its edge lies against the inner surfaces of the curves E' E. The belt is then adjusted endwise upon the waist of the wearer to bring the clasp or buckle (not shown) to the desired position at the front and fastened. The smooth exterior face of the bar D and interior of the hooks E allows this adjustment to be easily made without disarxanging the skirt and waist.

I attach importance to the fact that the ends of the wires E project below the lower edge of the bar D, for the reason that the long bearing t-hus afforded on the belt-surface prevents the bar from rolling or assuming an edgewise position uncomfortable to the wearerand also tends to keep the lower edge of the belt from curling upward and eX- posing the edges of the waist and skirt.

It is also important that the wires E be widely separated to better distribute the slight strain and that the junction of the wires with the bar D be on the rear face of the bar with the sharpened pin Dl and its securing means, so that the front or outer face of the bar be plane and smooth to lie unobserved within the belt and also to allow the latter to be shifted and adjusted longitudinally while engaged in the hooks without encountering the resistance due to projecting points or unevennesses on the surface over which it is drawn.

The device is practically unnoticeable when in use, being hidden by the belt. The only parts showing are the straight portions E2 of the hooks which may be ratherv ornamental than otherwise.

I have made the belt-pins of silver, but any suitable material may be employed, or the hooks E may be of a rich metal, as gold or silver, and the remaining hidden parts of a baser metal.

I claim- The belt-pin described consisting of the flat IOO hold the belt in place relatively to a waist and skirt joined by said sharpened pin, all substantially as herein specified.

In testimony that I claim the invention I5 above set forth I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANNA C. ZAUN.

lVitnesses:

J. B. CLAUrIoE, M F. BoYLE. 

